OCR Text |
Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. The city of Hamburg lias a surplus of $'',2.-0,000". "I sell cigars in seven languages'" is a sign in Philadelphia. Heading, Mich., has a girl seventeen years old who has been married four years. The people of Munich consume the enormous quantity of 485 quarts of beer per head per annum. The census men have found three citizens of Taylor County, Florida, who own thirteen dogs each. A great cruiser named the Cecile. just launched iu France, has a speed of nineteen anil one-half knots. A reduction of postal rates in Japan was expected to causa adclicit in the revenues, but instead they showed an increase. The general manager of the Magazine tin Louvre iu Paris gets a salary of C10, 000 a year, with percentage on the profits. Iu England they look upon strawberries straw-berries very much asCaliforniansdo on nuggets of gold. The "fruiterers" sell them for aboul two dollars a pound. A journalist in Italy has just been ' sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having insulted the royal family in his recently published memiors. A wealthy bnnker of Columbus, Ohio, hearing through a newspaper that he had been drawn for jury duty, took the first train to get out of the state. A new model school in Germany, which lias been built at a cost of $--.",-Olio, contains a largo dining-room where 701) poor children can be fed iu winter. win-ter. The Athenit'iin has this advertisement: advertise-ment: "Writers of tiction (ladies especially! es-pecially! may be supplied with new materials of an exciting and romantic character." A wild sweet orange has been discovered dis-covered growing in the northern part of Florida. The fruit hangs on the tree all the year round, often for six months after il'is fully ripe. llattie Stephenson, of Marine City, Mich., was struck by lightning a week ago and has been in convulsions ever since. There is not a mark on her body showing where Iho boll struck her. Two burglars broko into Henry Vincent's house, two miles south tif Grand Haven, and in the haste to get away when discovered overlooked 91,000 which was in the trunk they carried car-ried away but dropped in the woods when given chase. South Attica, Mich., farmers planted mustard seed. They did not expect pineapples or oranges, but they were wild when the planl came up and proved to be western mustard, which is about ten times as hard to eradicate as the Canada Ihistle. |